(meteorology) the horizontal transfer of heat or other atmospheric properties
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A line connecting or marking places upon the surface of the earth where height of the barometer reduced to sea level is the same either at a given time, or for a certain period (mean height), as for a year; an isopiestic line.
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The fluid which we breathe, and which surrounds the earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressi…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Weather, Climate and weather geography.A movement of the atmosphere opposite in character, as regards direction of the wind and distribution of barometric pressure, to that…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Weather, Climate and weather geography.A piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a lever and for various other purpo…
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Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Weather, Climate and weather geography.The science which treats of climates and investigates their phenomena and causes.
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Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Weather, Climate and weather geography.A violent storm, often of vast extent, characterized by high winds rotating about a calm center of low atmospheric pressure. This cent…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Weather, Climate and weather geography.The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face.
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Weather, Climate and weather geography.A strong current of air; a wind between a stiff breeze and a hurricane. The most violent gales are called tempests.
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Weather, Climate and weather geography.a slight wind (usually refreshing); "the breeze was cooled by the lake"; "as he waited he could feel the air on his neck"
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Weather, Climate and weather geography.Small roundish masses of ice precipitated from the clouds, where they are formed by the congelation of vapor. The separate masses or g…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Weather, Climate and weather geography.A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface having the same temperature. This may be the temperature for a given time o…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Weather, Climate and weather geography.The science which treats of the atmosphere and its phenomena, particularly of its variations of heat and moisture, of its winds, storm…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Weather, Climate and weather geography.(meteorology) a composite front when colder air surrounds a mass of warm air and forces it aloft
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Weather, Climate and weather geography.The act of occluding, or the state of being occluded.
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Weather, Climate and weather geography.The act of pressing, or the condition of being pressed; compression; a squeezing; a crushing; as, a pressure of the hand.
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The act of adjusting to a line; arrangement in a line or lines; the state of being so adjusted; a formation in a straight line; also,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: line, connecting, marking, places, upon.Space extended upward; height; the perpendicular elevation of an object above its foundation, above the ground, or above a given level…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: line, connecting, marking, places, upon.The standard atmospheric pressure used in certain physical measurements calculations; conventionally, that pressure under which the ba…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: line, connecting, marking, places, upon.Pertaining to the barometer; made or indicated by a barometer; as, barometric changes; barometrical observations.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: line, connecting, marking, places, upon.An instrument for the accurate measurement of small differences of height; esp. of the differences in the height of the upper surfaces…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: line, connecting, marking, places, upon.Anything that has a form resembling that of a cone.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: line, connecting, marking, places, upon.Shortened or reduced; -- said of the distance of a planet from the sun or earth, as measured in the plane of the ecliptic, or the dist…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: line, connecting, marking, places, upon.The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: line, connecting, marking, places, upon.A contrivance for permitting a body to incline freely in all directions, or for suspending anything, as a barometer, ship's compass, c…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: line, connecting, marking, places, upon.A process for producing a design upon a surface in relief so that it can be printed from. Prepared chalk or oxide of zinc is pressed u…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: line, connecting, marking, places, upon.The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: line, connecting, marking, places, upon.the scientific study of the earth's configuration above sea level (emphasizing the measurement of land altitudes relative to sea level)
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